This is Lee’s first film since the Oscar-winning “BlacKkKlansman,” it stars Delroy Lindo, Norm Lewis, Clarke Peters, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Chadwick Boseman, Jonathan Majors, and Paul Walter Hauser. Here’s the synopsis: From Academy Award® Winner Spike Lee comes a New Joint: the story of four African-American Vets — Paul (Delroy Lindo), Otis (Clarke Peters), Eddie (Norm Lewis), and Melvin (Isiah Whitlock, Jr.) — who return to Vietnam. Searching for the remains of their fallen Squad Leader (Chadwick Boseman) and the promise of buried treasure, our heroes, joined by Paul’s concerned son (Jonathan Majors), battle forces of Man and Nature — while confronted by the lasting ravages of The Immorality of The Vietnam War....

In his latest genre film, Neeson plays a former thief forced to return to doing what he does best: robbing banks. You see, Neeson’s thief, ridiculously called the “in and out bandit,” stole $9 million from several banks, his identity never revealed, but, of course, everything changed when he fell in love and decided to come clean and confess all of his crimes to get a fresh and new start....

John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan play the iconic comedic duo, however the film isn’t interested in their early to late ’30s cinematic heyday (“Pardon Us,” “Bonnie Scotland,” “Our Relations”) — “Stan and Ollie” is more about a last hurrah tour of England and Ireland in 1953, which happened when they were in their early 60s and Hardy’s weak heart was giving in. The films hints at a nosedive in popularity that happened in the early 40s — in part due to studio politics, which led to a few box-office bombs and their commercial prospects shrinking....

“Antigone,” which was Canada’s official submission for the 2020 International Feature Film Oscar race, won Best Picture and tied François Girard’s The Song of Names with five wins overall last Thursday at the Canadian Screen Awards, Canada’s equivalent to the Oscars. The film also took in the best actress prize for star Nahéma Ricci, supporting actress for Nour Belkhiria, adapted screenplay for Deraspe, and Geoffrey Boulangé and Deraspe for editing....

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“This blend of the socio-political and horror falls mostly flat in its attempt to both provoke and entertain. Set in 1989 L.A., the movie revolves around Anna (Elle Lorraine), working as an assistant on the music video show, “Culture.” She desperately wants a promotion, but sees her dreams evaporate when her boss leaves the company, replaced by Zora (Vanessa Williams, miscast), who wants to revamp the business by, gulp, adhering to white culture....

Marvel has already announced what movies will encompass the upcoming fourth phase of the MCU. If you remember, Phase 3 ended with the Avengers double-header “Infinity War,” and this past April’s “Endgame.” Marvel head Kevin Feige named the titles at San Diego Comic-Con earlier this summer. It does look like a stacked lineup of films will be headed our way in 2020, 2021 and 2022. A huge surprise, maybe the biggest one Marvel had to offer at Comic-Con, was the fact that the fourth phase of the MCU will be relying heavily on Disney+ — this is all part of the plan for the mouse house to take over Netflix as the streaming champion....

Just to be clear, “Blonde” should be seen as a work of fiction. It’s based on a 700 page novel from Joyce Carol Oates and much of what takes place in that novel never occurred. If one goes into this movie with the belief that they will witness a truthful depiction of Monroe, then they will be very disappointed. A lot of pill-popping and alcohol drinking occurs in “Blonde.” Monroe is portrayed as an isolated individual who became more and more broken with each failed relationship....

Having been brought up into the US at the age of 3 and adopted by Americans, his fight against possible deportation is no doubt relevant to today’s zeitgeist, but topical resonance does not make a great movie. It doesn’t help that Chon interjects his narrative with clunky subplots; Chon’s sudden friendship with a Vietnamese-American terminal cancer patient (Linh-Dan Pham), a rivalry with his wife’s former husband and the struggles he has to endure to maintain his job....

A $4.5 million 3-day opening is being predicted for Chazelle’s movie. If you remember, it was projected at $18 million two weeks ago, then the reviews came out. It was then tracking at around $10 million and, possibly, because of bad weather occurring all around the country, is now going to open at $4.5 million. Then again, should we actually blame bad weather? “Avatar: The Way of Water” is tracking at a $60 million in its second week....

In second place this week is Universal’s Robert Downey Jr starring reboot of “Dolittle”. Critically slammed, the film managed around $30M, which simply put is not enough for a film reportedly costing over $175M to make. Internationally the film sits at $17.2M, however, its overseas prowess will be determined by key releases in Europe. Either way, it does not look good for Universal. On a brighter note for the studio, they did seal third with Oscar front runner “1917”....

Is it even a good movie? Well, it’s the same Judd Apatow blueprint we’ve seen before, except done through the lens of LGBTQ characters. That, in itself, makes it a landmark moment. I’m glad it exists. Again, is it even a good movie? Well, it IS the first mainstream Hollywood studio romantic comedy to feature gay men as the lead characters. It does feature fairly explicit gay sex. One can definitely semi-embrace “Bros” for its representational significance....

Brie Larson to play Carol Danvers, a pilot with superpowers. Here’s my problem with this latest Marvel extravaganza, this is about some kind of galactic war between two alien races. Ugh. The good news is that Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are directing and they made some stellar stuff over their short careers as filmmakers such as “Mississippi Grind," “Sugar” and the critically-acclaimed “Half Nelson.” The screenplay credit is being shared between five female screenwriters Meg LeFauve (“Inside Out”), and Nicole Perlman (“Guardians of the Galaxy”), Geneva Robertson-Dworet (“Tomb Raider”), Liz Flahive & Carly Mensch (“GLOW”), as well as Boden and Fleck....

The story is rather simple and familiar, man and a woman share one compartment on a train despite the clear personality differences. Finnish student Laura (Seidi Haarla) and Russian miner Ljoha (Yuriy Borisov) are both going to Murmansk; she a palaeontologist, wants to see ancient petroglyphs. He, headed to work, and drinking … a lot. The uncomfortable dynamics drive this movie forward until, lo and behold, an attraction starts creeping in....

However, don’t be discouraged, Clayton Davis still believes it’s an “Oscar contender.” Davis, again, seems to have not gotten the memo that “Emancipation” sunk quicker than the Titanic last night. He’s calling the film “Fuqua’s Schindler’s List.” Also, he’s also decided to compare the film to “The Tree of Life, on top of comparing Smith to Trump. Another day at the office for good ol’ Clayton. As mentioned in the past few articles about this film, “Emancipation” is directed by Antoine Fuqua so it’s not like we necessarily expected something great....

Rian Johnson’s critically-acclaimed “Knives Out” sequel will open from November 23-29 in more than 600 cinemas. It’s basically a one-week sneak preview before the film starts streaming a month later on December 23rd. That’s astounding for a Netflix original film and don’t be surprised if there’s an additional agreement to extend the theatrical run for a few more weeks. Netflix is going full-bore here with “Glass Onion.” They know they have a major hit in their hands....

Having paid through the nose for the rights to the filmed production, Disney will surely be hoping (as Netflix and ESPN have done with “The Last Dance”) that increased viewership due to the ongoing pandemic will drive people to their screens for just under three hours of the telling of the life of one of America’s foremost founding fathers. “Hamilton” drops on July 3rd on Disney +. Disney has forked over close to $75 million for the rights to distribute the filmed version of the “Hamilton” stage production....

So, quite literally, the first people who will be watching these two much-anticipated films will be the ones who vote for Oscars. What an unusual way to launch a movie, but one which, if successful, could convince others to go the same route in the near future. As per Variety: “The museum is quickly becoming the hottest event space in the city. WIF will hold its annual awards gala there next week followed by the premieres of “House of Gucci,” Ridley Scott’s drama starring Lady Gaga, and Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley....

A few thoughts about this trailer: Ford doesn’t look a day over 79. Toby Jones playing a Nazi because .. of course. De-Aged Indy does look very impressive . It also seems as though they are going to use most of the common tropes for this sequel, it won’t reinvent the wheel whatsoever, just — hopefully — a good old yarn. “Indiana Jones 5” started filming in the UK back in June of 2021....

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